Father Noel Furlong - Father Ted (UK) Characters - ShareTV Father Noel Furlong Graham William Walker, known by his stage name Graham Norton (born 4 April 1963), is an Irish comic presenter. ... Character Bio Father Noel is a very annoying and hyperactive priest whom Ted and Dougal hate spending time with. He runs the St. Luke's Youth Group and is first encountered during Ted's abortive caravaning holiday in "Hell". Here he invades the peaceful surroundings of the priests' rented caravan and keeps them awake at night, singing songs (" The Whole of the Moon " and " Dirty Old Town ") and expressing his desire to tell ghost stories at six o' clock in the morning. He regales the helpless Ted and Dougal with tales of how members of the youth group have a habit of turning in "late" ("ten past the eleven") and succeeds in driving them out of their holiday home, which he then proceeds to tip over after having himself and the youth group perform a Riverdance routine inside it. Father Noel turns up again in "Flight into Terror" leading Father Fay and Dougal into the cockpit of a plane.

While there he inadvertently causes disaster when he allows Father Fay, who doesn't know he's a priest, to see his reflection. Father Fay goes mad and jumps on the pilot sending the plane out of its path. The pilot screams at the watching Dougal to press the emergency button. The bumbling priest then presses the wrong button. This grave error results in one of the fuel tanks being emptied. Noel's boundless energy results in him getting his group lost in the "Very Dark Caves" in " The Mainland ", and, after performing a rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody , his attempts to start a "screeching competition" cause him to be crushed by falling rocks. His very last scene features him under the rocks with his hand sticking out, still in a very happy mood. His youth group then abandon him and head to Paraguay on Aer Lingus flights. Ted told an apparent rescue service man to save Noel, but the man turned out actually to be an uninterested dustman. In the short scene after the credits, Noel is still under the rocks, clicking his fingers and singing " Fat Bottomed Girls ". Linehan stated that he believed Noel to be asexual. Episode Screenshots Father Ted - what time is it on TV?

Episode 1 Series 2 cast list and preview. Father Ted Video clips are automatically supplied by broadcasters and distributors. RadioTimes.com is not responsible for the clip's contents. S2-E1 Hell ADVERTISEMENT Summary Jack, Dougal and Ted head off for a summer break at a caravan park. However, they immediately get on the wrong side of their fellow holiday-makers, and matters become even more dire when Father Noel Furlong turns up - with his hapless youth group in tow. Comedy, guest starring Graham Norton. Cast & Crew Father Ted Crilly Dermot Morgan Father Dougal McGuire Ardal O'Hanlon Father Jack Hackett Frank Kelly Father Noel Furlong Graham Norton Tom Pat Shortt Father Ted (Series) - TV Tropes Father Ted You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share This picture is just resting on this page before Ted moves it on. Feck off!

An unhinged Anglo-Irish sitcom by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, about a tiny parish on a miserable little island off the coast of Ireland where the Catholic Church has sent three of its most embarrassing members: the embezzler Father Ted Crilly, the idiotic manchild Father Dougal McGuire, and the drunken, violent, foul-mouthed skirt-chaser Father Jack Hackett. Their housekeeper is Mrs. Doyle, who is really dedicated to serving tea . The majority of episodes involved Ted's efforts to either get away from the island or make a nice pile of cash , neither of which he ever succeeded in doing . A cult hit in Britain and Ireland, the writers never planned to continue it beyond its third season. Star Dermot Morgan (who played Ted) died one day after finishing filming of the final episode, resulting in the common misconception that the show was cancelled because of this. Flame wars can break out over whether the show should be considered Irish (its writers, cast, settings and exterior locations were all Irish) or British (it was produced by a British company for a British TV channel). Came eleventh in Britain's Best Sitcom .

It is very popular in Ireland , regularly repeated on Irish television, and lines from the show are quoted about as often as Brits quote Monty Python . This show provides examples of: Ted on several occasions in the episode Hell, where he just can't seem to stop catching the inhabitants of the caravan nextdoor in various states of undress. Jack on one occasion since he was sleepwalking at the time. Brennan: What would the following describe to you; Jack, sleepwalking and bollock naked? Although Jack did seem to enjoy the notion, as when Ted admonishes him he gleefully cries "Nudey Father Jack!" The rest of the time he's a fully intentional pervert. Acquired Situational Narcissism : Ted, at the drop of a hat, more than once. Affectionate Parody : In "A Song for Europe", Fr. Dick Byrne's dramatic ballad ("When I was young, I had a dream / And though the dream was very small, it wouldn't leave me") is an affectionate parody of 60s MOR ballads by the likes of Lee Hazlewood or Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse (especially "What Kind Of Fool Am I").

The writers freely admit that "Speed 3" is a blatant attempt to write a Speed sequel with the lowest possible stakes imaginable. To describe Jack as this would be the understatement of the century. Guest character Henry Sellers is also this. A sip of champagne is enough to set him off. Henry: Sack me? Sack me? I made the BBC! Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking : "Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading", although equally a reference to Brit Pop band Oasis's single "Cigarettes and Alcohol". "She was on her way to the shop the other day, and a man came over to her, and killed her, and stole her pen!" Ted listing examples of 'things that are wrong' might also count Ted: Arson, there's one... murder... swearing. Artistic License ï¿½ Geography : When Bishop Brennan indicates an island off the coast of Suriname on a globe, he points to somewhere in the centre of the USA. Artistic License ï¿½ Military : Father Williams is shot by a soldier using a Sterling submachinegun.

The Sterling was never used by the Irish Army and the FN FALs seen carried by the other soldiers in that scene were replaced by the Steyr AUG in 1988 (though the FAL was still used by reservists until 2001 and still sees limited use by the Navy to this day). Even the British Army phased the Sterling out in 1994, two years before the episode was filmed. Ted learns the hard way never to say " I don't believe it! " in front of Richard Wilson. Bishop Brennan is very punctilious about the correct way to address a Bishop: "Don't call me Len, you little prick! I'm a BISHOP!" Never, ever, ever come between Jack Hackett and alcohol. Even Jack is terrified of Ted when the latter is drunk. Be Yourself : Ted makes the terrible mistake of giving this advice to Dougal. Big Entrance : Bishop Brennan makes an unforgettable entrance running towards the camera screaming with his 10ft-wide cloak billowing behind him once he figures out that Ted really did kick him up the arse. Captain Obvious : Ted explaining why Dougal's comments are stupid .

Arguably a case of Rule of Funny ; Dermot Morgan usually managed to wring some laughs out of the situation with his exasperated reactions to what Dougal was saying. Dougal himself gets in on the action: after an Establishing Shot of a caravan in a field during a shower of torrential rain, he looks out of the caravan window. "Looks like rain, Ted." Cardboard Boxes : Spoofed in the "Speed 3" episode. There's a big stack of neatly arranged boxes in the middle of the road, which Ted moves one by one out of the path of the milk float, then drives right through them with his own car. The Casanova : Pat Mustard. He basically has sex with more or less every woman on Craggy Island when doing his rounds. Casual Sports Jersey : Father Dougal often wears a soccer jersey for pyjamas, emphasizing his characterization as an eccentric manchild. Catapult Nightmare : "A Song for Europe:" 'We have to lose that sax solo!' He has another one when he belatedly realizes what he has done to the prize car given to him for a charity raffle. "OH JESUS, WE'RE DEAD!

OH, GOD ALMIGHTY!" Father Jack: "Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!" Father Ted: "The money was just resting in my account!" Mrs. Doyle: "Would ya like a cup of tea, father? Ah go on! Go on! Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on. GO ON!" Played with in "The Mainland", where Dougal becomes hooked on One Foot in the Grave and subsequently encounters its lead actor. Ted gets the idea that Richard Wilson would find it amusing to have his catchphrase yelled at him; this doesn't go down quite as well as Ted had imagined. Cheating with the Milkman : According to "Speed 3", apparently most of the women on Craggy Island are sleeping with the same milkman. Chekhov's Gag : The brick from "Speed 3" manages to be this, a Brick Joke , and a Chekhov's Boomerang all at once. Chekhov's Gun : "Now Tom, this is the first time you've been trusted with such a large consignment of raw sewage. ...

Now, this button opens the doors, and this button shoots the sewage out." You already know what's going to happen, right? "Honestly, what kind of situation would require the use of a pair of fake arms and a remote-controlled wheelchair? Only, I imagine, a completely ludicrous one! " The perfectly square bit of dirt pointed out by Ted near the start of the episode "Are You Right There Father Ted?" later comes back to haunt him, as does the massive amount of Nazi memorabilia owned by the priest Ted visits at the beginning of the episode. After seemingly getting away with kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse, a completely inebriated Ted orders Dougal to make hundreds of copies of the photograph he took of the deed, including a 10-by-10, blown-up copy. When Brennan returns to Craggy Island, he eventually sees the incriminating photo, propped up against the side of the parochial house (because Dougal thought that meant 10x10 feet), and he realises that Ted did indeed kick him up the arse.

Chewing the Scenery : It's a little known fact that after every scene with Bishop Brennan, the set had to be rebuilt because he chewed so much. Christmas Episode : "A Christmassy Ted", where Ted is awarded the Golden Cleric on Christmas day for covering up a scandal involving him and a number of other priests accidentally wandering into the lingerie section of a department store. Cloudcuckoolander : Ted, but especially Dougal, Jack and Mrs. Doyle. Ted, to Dougal while trying to write "A Song For Europe". He'd been smoking and drinking a lot at the time. Also a pastiche of the Troggs Tapes . Ted: Just play the f—-ing note! Dougal: [very nervous] he first one? Ted: No, not the f—-ing first one! That's already f—-ing down! Play the f—-ing note you were f—-ing playing. I'm playing the f—-ing first one! We have the f—-ing first one! Dougal: So, I... Ted: Play the f—-ing note you were f—-ing playing! The thing you were just doing! PLAY THE F—-ING NOTE!

Comically Missing the Point : Ted realises the babies entered into Craggy Island's Beautiful Baby contest all have suspiciously similar hairstyles to Pat Mustard . Dougal's first thought is that the babies are all copying his style. In the same episode, Ted presents Pat's manager with photographic evidence of Pat's indiscretions. Pat's manager responds by telling Ted how much he's willing to pay for the dirty photos. Also, this little gem from the episode "The Plague", regarding Bishop Brennan's phobia of rabbits : Dougal: [shouting up the stairs] Ted, did Len find the rabbits? Bishop Brennan: What did he just say?! Ted: Ah, I can explain... Bishop Brennan: Did he call me Len again? [shouting down the stairs] You address me by my proper title, you little bollocks! Compressed Abstinence : For Lent, Ted decides to give up cigarettes, Dougal rollerblading, and on Jack's behalf, Ted makes a vow that Jack will give up drinking. After they can't go one day without succumbing they call in a specialist, who turns out to be quite insane, and eventually they do a turnaround and indulge these things to a greater degree than they did before.

Compressed Vice : Dougal's passion for rollerblading is not mentioned outside of the episode "Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading"; Linehan and Mathews simply thought it would be a funny "vice" for Dougal to have to give up for Lent while Ted gave up smoking and Jack gave up drinking. Confessional : Seeing as the protagonists are priests, it's a given. Ted uses it just to get juicy gossip about his parishioners. Continuity Nod : Near the end of "Entertaining Father Stone", Father Stone's parents show Ted a painting their son made of himself with a smiling Father Ted standing behind him with his hands on his shoulders as a mark of how much he looks up to Ted. The painting can be seen on the wall above the fireplace in the parochial house in Series 2 and 3. Corrupt Church : Many of the priests are dodgy characters with various shady dealings: Ted once inappropriated some funds from a sick child and went to Las Vegas with the proceeds. When he temporarily gets reassigned to a cushy parish in Dublin, he gets sent back after some irregularities in his expenses. Bishop Brennan has been having secret affairs and even has a secret son in America.

Father Billy "The Spinmaster" is a gambling addict who steals the proceeds from a raffle to pay off his debts. Father Williams is caught with a box of guns in his house, implied to be for the IRA. "Remember Father O'Reilly? He's in Clare. They moved him after he owned up to that O J Simpson thing ." Crappy Carnival : Craggy Island Funfair includes such attractions as "Freak Pointing", an ordinary ladder, and a cat spinning on a record player. Both Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan played various parts throughout the series. The show's producer, Geoffrey Perkins, provides the voice of the translator in "The Passion of St Tibulus". Curse Cut Short : A visual example. When Jack is left in a department store creche, he assembles his three favourite words in alphabet blocks. Cut to him with only one gap remaining, "F-CK", hesitating to put down a block with both an "E" and a "U" on it... but he's called away before he can decide.

Curtain Camouflage : An episode where Ted and Dougal play hide and seek in a very small caravan.note That's a "trailer" or "mobile home" to North Americans. Father Ted also hides behind a curtain when on the phone with a TV producer to hide from Father Jack in "Good Luck, Father Ted". Damned by Faint Praise : "I'd say Father that you might be the second best priest in the country!" Delayed Reaction : After getting kicked by Ted in the episode " Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse ", Bishop Brennan remains in a state of shocked disbelief for the time it takes him to fly to Rome for an audience with the Pope, at which point he finally snaps out of it with a roar of "He did kick me up the arse!". And then shoves His Holiness out of the way and rushes back to Ireland. Not to mention screaming "God damn it!" in the middle of the Vatican. After destroying a car that was sent to be raffled off, Ted is completely calm at first, then abruptly starts freaking out in the middle of the night.

Delayed to the point of a Brick Joke in "Speed 3", when Dougal delivers milk to women expecting the usual milkman , and walks away entirely oblivious to the fact that they opened the door entirely naked . At the end of the episode, he's just settling down to go to bed when he leaps up shouting "Those women were in the nip!" In "Flight into Terror", Ted is too pumped up by being in mortal peril to be scared as he climbs outside of the plane in mid-flight to fix the fuel pump. After fixing it and averting the crisis, he immediately begins freaking out as he remembers his fear of flying. Ted: What am I doing on the feckin' wheels?! Given a Shout-Out in the image caption in this BBC article . Also voted as one of the top 100 TV moments. A 2010 retrospective Father Ted documentary was entitled Small - Far Away. Didn't Think This Through : After Ted solves the mystery of "The Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep" he walks away victorious...forgetting he bet the entire winter's heating money on Chris winning. Dirty Old Man : Father Jack; it's evidently what got him banished to the island in the first place.

Distant Reaction Shot / Eskimo Land : Subject of a brief gag when the bomb finally goes off at the end of "Speed 3". The Ditz : Dougal, mostly . He doesn't even understand depth perception. He thought the cows he saw in the distance were actually really tiny cows. Dull Surprise : Father Stone. He even underreacts after being struck by lightning. This is intentional. The priest with the boring voice in "A Christmassy Ted". Actually comes in useful to distract shoppers so that the priests can escape the lingerie section. Drill Sergeant Nasty : Bishop Brennan. Sister Assumpta, who comes over to assist Ted and Dougal with their Lenten vows in "Cigarettes, Alcohol, and Rollerblading". She bathes them in ice, replaces their mattresses with bricks, and shoots at them. Dumbass Has a Point : For all his idiocy, Dougal does occasionally come up with a plan or idea that genuinely impresses Ted. In "Are You Right There, Father Ted?", when Ted is accused of being racist towards Craggy Island's new Chinese residents, Dougal tells him to hold a presentation praising Chinese culture, as a gesture of good faith.

It may count as a subversion, though: when Ted asks Dougal to follow up on his brilliant idea, poor Dougal panics, as he didn't think coming up with a good idea would be so much work. And the Chinese family didn't actually enjoy the presentation, but they appreciated the free drinks afterwards. In "Kicking Bishop Brennan Up The Arse", Dougal advises Ted that, if he pretends as though he didn't kick Brennan up the arse, the bishop will believe that he had simply imagined it . In fact, this plan works rather well. Ted would've gotten away with the whole thing, had His Grace not seen the blown-up copy of the photo taken of the deed . Early Installment Weirdness : Graham Linehan calls himself out on this in the scripts book, noting that the first episode they wrote - "Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest", which aired as the finale of season 1 - has some rather weird out-of-character moments, like Ted reciting poetry and Ted and Dougal seemingly plotting to kill Jack at the end. The earliest episodes also feature a brighter parochial house, and a slightly cleaner Father Jack. Easy Evangelism : Somehow, Dougal unintentionally talks a bishop into abandoning religion.

In a single (offscreen) conversation. Then again, the bishop was already having a crisis of faith. Eccentric Townsfolk : The people of Craggy Island. They invented gayness! " "Father... I've killed a man." John and Mary O'Leary, a couple who run the general store on the island, hate each other and are always encountered just as they perpetrate some violence on each other, and then immediately act as if nothing is wrong. Elvis Impersonator : Parodied. Ted comes up with the idea of dressing up as Elvis Presley for an all-priest lookalike competition and shows it off only to discover that Dougal and Jack have ripped the idea off from him. Ted eventually finds a workaround that the three of them enter as a trio with Dougal as Early!Elvis, Ted as Comeback Special!Elvis and an extremely dishevelled Jack as Vegas!Elvis. In "The Night of the Nearly Dead", while Shaming the Mob of elderly fans, Ted points out a time when one lady's husband tried to wash a cup and set the house on fire, and when another's lost a leg trying to make the bed.

Dougal enters the room with his face completely covered in shaving cream. When Ted points it out to him, he reacts with surprise since he didn't even shave that morning. Even the Subtitler Is Stumped : When Niamh Connolly is shown performing her latest song on TV, there's a woman using sign language to convey the song's lyrics for the deaf. About halfway through, she simply shrugs and gives up translating. Evil Laugh : Dougal, while holding the Golden Cleric Award at the end of "A Christmassy Ted". Pat Mustard the milkman. Ted sets down the telephone receiver when he starts Evil Laughing , and when we cut back to him (several hours later) later on he's still doing it. Dick Byrne. After managing to convince Ted that he is giving up cigarettes for Lent near the start of "Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading", and encouraging Ted to do the same, he puts the phone down, lights a cigarette and starts laughing evilly. The Exit Is That Way : A particularly unusual variant occurs with Father Dougal: he walks to the wrong side of an open door, missing an exit that is right in front of him.

It's not clear if the writers knew it, but this is similar to a gag in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (involving Dopey, of course). In the Christmas Special when Ted, Dougal and several other priests try to sneak out of a lingerie section of a store that they accidentally wandered into so that it won't cause a public scandal, they hijack a P.A system so they can say the store is closing to lure out the shoppers. However when they start wandering around aimlessly... Ted: (Hijacks P.A) NOT THAT WAY FOR FECKS SAKE, THE OTHER WAY!!! Exposition Diagram : Parodied and subverted in "Speed 3". The priests attempting to help Dougal out are drawing up various diagrams of plans to help out. After Ted has a Eureka Moment and scribbles his plan on the board. His plan is to put the brick on the accelerator, and we then see the board where he has simply written WE PUT THE BRICK ON THE ACCELERATOR. Eyepatch After Time Skip : Father Cleary accidentally snaps a bra into his eye when fiddling with it in the lingerie section in the Christmas Episode .

When we next see him at Ted's Golden Cleric award ceremony, he's got an eyepatch on. Four-Temperament Ensemble : Combo Ensemble—Ted is sanguine/choleric, Jack is choleric/melancholic, Mrs. Doyle is melancholic/phlegmatic, and Dougal is phlegmatic/sanguine. Other characters: Fathers Todd Unctious and Noel Furlong are sanguine 1000%, Bishop Brennan is choleric, Father Stack is melancholic, and Father Stone is the ultimate phlegmatic. Freudian Trio : The protagonists fit the following arrangement: Jack is the Id, Ted the Ego, and Dougal the Superego (for all his ditziness, Dougal does seem to make more of an effort than Ted and Jack at being a good priest, or at least a good person.) Friendly Local Chinatown : Craggy Island has one that Ted was completely oblivious to, due to being at a different parochial house for a few weeks. The "Fun" in "Funeral" : "DOUGAL'S DOING A FUNERAL?!

YOU LET DOUGAL DO A FUNERAL!?!" Cut to the funeral itself, where the hearse is in the grave. And on fire. Funny Background Event : As Ted suggests that Mrs Doyle is buying more milk just to see Pat Mustard every day, she appears in the back of the shot watering the plants with it. Genius Ditz : While mostly a ditz , Dougal often shows signs of intelligence and excellent character judgements. Genre Savvy : Ted himself. One example from "Kicking Bishop Brennan Up The Arse", after Dougal assures a nervous Ted that Bishop Brennan, who hates Craggy Island, will most likely never have a reason to come back. The phone at once begins to ring. Ted: (picks up phone) Hello Bishop Brennan. Cleverly parodied in "Speed 3", when the priests somehow realise that the answer to Dougal's life-threatening situation lies in the plot of an action film , but keep guessing the wrong one, first discussing The Towering Inferno and then watching The Poseidon Adventure ("Gene Hackman plays a priest in it!") in its entirety.

Geographic Flexibility : The only constant of Craggy Island's geography is that it has no west side - it just kind of broke off during a storm and drifted away. In some episodes it is incredibly tiny; in others it can contain an entire Chinatown that Ted has somehow never heard of. In the case of the Chinatown, Ted had been off at a different parochial house for several weeks, presumably the time it took for the Chinatown to be made. Getting Crap Past the Radar : "Feck" is liberally used throughout the programme. Linehan and Matthews have tried to justify (with tongue firmly in cheek) its use, saying that it's a common exclamation in Ireland. Graham Norton freely admits: "It's just "fuck" with an "e" in it." The Ghost : Several priests are referenced as one off gags. Father Bigley is the most frequently referenced of these. He apparently looks like he's dead, has blotchy skin and puffy lips and is an avid Dana fan. He also performed OJ Simpson's wedding and is currently in a home due to some fires .

Global Ignorance : In relation to the Geographic Flexibility above, when someone asks how to get to Craggy Island it's revealed that the island doesn't appear on any maps and the only way to know when you are near it is when you see British ships dumping nuclear waste. The general rule is that if you are going away from it you are heading in the right direction. Father Ted: We wouldn't be on maps now Terry, we're not exactly New York! Hypocritical Humour : Mrs Doyle hates the language in modern novels; in fact she hates it so much that she spends five minutes using all of the language that she hates. Mrs Doyle: "Ride me sideways" was another one!note That line was actually ad-libbed by Pauline McLynn and caused Dermot Morgan to break up. If you watch closely, you can see that the scene is cut just as he is about to laugh out loud. Another example from Mrs Doyle is her talk of how much she hates sex. "..can you imagine Father, your husband, with his lad in his hand, ready to do the business, wanting you to degrade yourself...Get a good mental picture there!" Ted is eating a sausage at the time.

In "Speed 3", after Ted confronts Pat Mustard about using his job as a milkman to father illegitimate children across Craggy Island, suggesting that he should be more careful in the bedroom, Pat turns it around and asks if Ted's suggesting that he use artificial contraception? Ted: Yes! ( Beat ) No! Oh just feck off! I Did What I Had to Do : The whole of "Think Fast, Father Ted", where Ted holds a raffle in order to raise money to repair the leaking roof, is riddled with this. But not more so than in the case of the raffle's DJ, Father Billy O'Dwyer, who ends up stealing the raffle money to pay off the debts run up by his huge gambling problem. I Need to Go Iron My Dog : Done many times. In the second episode, used repeatedly to try to get away from the painfully boring Father Stone. In "A Christmassy Ted", the priests try to wriggle their way out of watching a televised Mass through this. One of them says they have to console a death row inmate. Inept Talent Show Contestant : "My Lovely Horse".

Notably, done specifically to lose the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland, which at that point was tired of being nearly bankrupted by the cost of repeatedly hosting. Informed Attribute : We all know that Larry Duff is "great fun". Unfortunately, he's never in a situation to demonstrate it. Injury Bookend : In "Are You Right There Father Ted?" Mrs Doyle falls down the stairs and hurts her back, leading to trouble walking, a hunched posture, and inability to do most of her usual work. Ted tries to help (against her violent protests) but just makes it worse. At the end of the episode, she trips, falls down the stairs again, and is cured. Innocent Innuendo : "Oh, Pat was wondering if he could put his massive tool in my box?" Insane Troll Logic : In "Think Fast, Father Ted", they damage a car they're about to raffle off. Dougal thinks that cheating in the raffle to get the money back would be morally wrong . Ted convinces Dougal otherwise with this brilliant deduction: Father Ted: Dougal, seriously, listen: if Bishop Brennan finds out we wrecked the car, he will kill us.

And murder is a terrible, terrible sin, Dougal. So, by committing this little sin, we'll actually be saving a bishop's soul. Ted: I am fearless. Like that film with Jeff Bridges. Dougal: I haven't seen that one. Ted: Not a lot of people have, Dougal, so it's probably a bad reference. Also the inspiration for the in-universe "My Lovely Horse" - a B-side to a runner up in A Song for Norway sung by a band no-one has ever heard of (Nin Huegen and the Huguenotes) in 1976, released shortly before everyone involved in writing, performing, producing and distributing the song was killed in a plane crash. Dougal must be one of the very few owners of this record and even he has only listened to the B-side once. Ted: ...so it would be fair to say that not a lot of people have heard this song? Bishop Brennan has to be in RRRRROME tomorrow to meet with the holy father! Ted, when he gets angry or excited. One of the priests stuck in the lingerie section in the Christmas special has an exciting dramatic voice played for laughs. Father Reilly: [loudly] Ted!

Were you asking for a dramatic, exciting voice!? Father Fitzgerald: No. He said boring. He wanted a boring voice. Father Reilly: In that case, you must excuse me for my impetuous interruption! DRINK! FECK! ARSE! GIRLS! Everyone. Every extra, every one-scene character, will act as though they are chewing 900lbs of pork. The world of Father Ted is a quintessential World of Ham . Honourable mention to the bigoted woman from "Think Fast, Father Ted", whose hatred of the Greeks causes her to undergo a total, Basil Fawlty style meltdown. Meat-O-Vision : Used in the episode "Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading". The priests try to give up their vices for Lent, but soon go into withdrawal and hallucinate one another as the objects of their addiction (giant talking cigarettes or pints of Guinness) speaking gibberish . In his DVD commentary co-writer Graham Linehan points out that this is a fairly routine gag until we get to see Dougal's point of view - Ted as a giant rollerblade shoe. Megaton Punch : Bishop Brennan manages to launch Ted several feet through the air.

Father Jack's response to hearing that Father Stone is visiting is to punch Ted out of the window. When Mrs. Doyle has a night out, Ted and Dougal manage to start a fire in their attempt to make a cup of tea, and run around in a blind panic. Also used to remove the zombie-horde of old women looking for Eoin McLove. Mrs. Doyle: Stop! Stop! Ladies! It's after seven o'clock. I think your husbands might be wondering where their breakfasts are! Father Ted: Mrs. Doyle's right! Remember last year, Mrs. Dunn, when your husband tried to wash a cup, and burned the house down . And Mrs. Collins, when Mr. Collins tried to make the bed on his own...(dramatic pause)...and lost a leg. Metaphorgotten : In the Christmas special, when Mrs Doyle is describing the process of making tea: Mrs Doyle: The playful splash of the tea as it hits the bottom of the cup. The thrill of adding the milk, and watching it settle for a moment, before it filters slowly down, turning the tea from dark brown to a lighter brown.

Perching an optional Jaffa Cake on the side, like a proud soldier, standing to attention beside a giant... cup of tea. Mistaken for Racist : Zig-zagged with Ted in "Are You Right There Father Ted?". He does an impression of Chinese people which genuinely is racist, but his attempts to make amends are torpedoed due to a hilarious series of misunderstandings. "So Father, I hear you're now a racist!" Mood Whiplash : Played for Laughs with the two Craggy Island locals who accuse Ted of being racist. After Ted angrily dismisses them and goes back inside the parochial house, the pair calmly discuss the local news. Ted: I am not a racist, alright?! God! (leaves) Mrs. Carbury: Feckin' Greeks! Naked People Are Funny : Poor Mrs Millet in "Speed 3" answers the door in the nude because she expects her milkman to be Kavorka Man Pat Mustard. She gets Dougal instead, although it takes him several hours to process what he's seen. In "Hell", Ted and Dougal wander into the wrong caravan while a naked man walks out of the shower.

He later chases after them while wearing only a towel and he winds up clinging to Ted's car for several miles after his towel has fallen off. Nice Character, Mean Actor : In "Night of the Nearly Dead", Eoin McLove's onstage persona is the son any mother would love to have, a charmer who loves homemade cakes and pies and comfy jumpers. When the cameras are off, he is a sulking, petulant Man Child who hates the middle-to-old-aged women who make up his core audience, is rude and abrasive to Mrs. Doyle when he visits Craggy Island after she wins his poetry competition (the fact that she baked a hand-knitted jumper into the cake she serves him does not help), and openly steals two suitcases' worth of odds and ends from the parochial house while it is besieged by thousands of his fans. (Although he does have an excuse for both his tendency to aim his music at an older crowd and his bad temper when the cameras are off: as he tells Ted and co., "I have no willy.") Nightmare Fuel : In-universe, Dougal thinks The Love Bug was so scary, he had to sleep in Ted's bed that night.

Dougal: C'mon, Ted: a Volkswagen with a mind of its own. That's pretty scary. No Celebrities Were Harmed : Henry Sellars = Henry Kelly, Eoin McLove = Daniel O'Donnell, Niamh Connolly = Sinéad O'Connor, Bishop Brennan = Bishop Éamon Casey (who also had a secret son; condoms in Ireland were briefly nicknamed "Just In Caseys"). No Indoor Voice : Father Jack "FECK! DRINK! ARSE! GIRLS!" Hackett. The "Blackrock incident" that got Dougal sent to Craggy Island. Bishop Brennan: The amount of lives irreparably damaged... Dougal: They were only nuns. Bishop Brennan: Nuns are people too! My God, the strings I had to pull to stop the Vatican getting involved! The funeral Dougal did, which somehow ended with the hearse in the grave, on fire . The "Sealink incident," which we are told involved Dougal and the controls of a Sealink ferry, although Noel Furlong tactfully shushes Dougal before he can give too many details.

In "Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading"—where they seem determined to push this trope to its breaking point: Father Ted: Dougal, Dougal, do you remember Sister Assumpta? Dougal: Er, no. Father Ted: She was here last year! And then we stayed with her in the convent, back in Kildare. Do you remember it? Ah, you do! And then you were hit by the car when you went down to the shops for the paper. You must remember all that? And then you won a hundred pounds with your lottery card? Ah, you must remember it, Dougal! [Dougal shakes his head] Sr. Assumpta: And weren't you accidentally arrested for shoplifting? I remember we had to go down to the police station to get you!... And the police station went on fire? And you had to be rescued by helicopter? Father Ted: Do you remember? You can't remember any of that? The helicopter! When you fell out of the helicopter! Over the zoo! Do you remember the tigers? [Dougal shakes his head some more] Father Ted: You don't remember? You were wearing your blue jumper.

Dougal: Ah, Sister Assumpta! And, of course, the Lourdes incident involving Ted, a trip to Las Vegas and a sick child whose money he allegedly took. All we know is that the money was just resting in his account. How Jack got to Craggy Island: the infamous "Wedding in Athlone." From "Are You Right There Father Ted": Dougal: It's like that time we put on that variety show, and you did that impression of Stephen Hawking . Ted: He was the last person you'd expect to turn up. That was a million to one chance. God, he can fairly move that wheelchair when he's angry... Ted mentions that a friend of his, Father Jimmy Ranable, was a student of Jack's in his heyday. Dougal asks what happened to Jimmy and Ted tells him that "The Drumshanbo Massacre" was his doing. Another priest is mentioned as having been "involved in that whole OJ Simpson thing". Yet another priest was once caught smuggling arms into Iraq. No Name Given : Mrs. Doyle. Whenever anyone says her first name, it's drowned out by a conveniently timed stock sound effect.

Not So Different : Ted's bitter rivalry with Dick Byrne appears to be borne of the fact that they're carbon copies of one another, even extending to their violent alcoholic and "poor, strange idiot-boy" priests who live with them in an identical house. Not That There's Anything Wrong with That : When Father Ted comes across a homosexual musical producer in the episode 'A Song for Europe'. "Still it must be fun though... not the... y'know... but... well... having boyfriends when you're a man and the general rough and tumble of homosexual activity." Not This One, That One : When Father Ted and Dougal go on a caravan holiday, they are terribly excited at the size of the caravan they've borrowed, but discover that it's not theirs, it's just so big it's totally concealing the shed-sized caravan they actually got. Nun Too Holy : Virtually every priest or nun in the series, definitely including the protagonists. Father Ted is a gambling-addicted embezzler, Father Jack is a foul-mouthed, violent, alcoholic womanizer, and Father Dougal openly mocks the teachings of the church. Many of the one shot clergy members crank this Up to Eleven .

Examples include Father Williams, who was caught with a box of machineguns in his house and is shot by the Army over it, Father Billy, "The Spinmaster", a gambling addict who owes some dodgy types a large amount of money and ends up stealing the Craggy Island Parochial House new roof fund, Father Todd Unctious, who tries to steal Ted's golden cleric award and steals another priest's clothing "because it seemed to be the way things were going", and the thoroughly vile Father Fintan Stack. One-Hour Work Week : The priests' parish duties are virtually non-existent. Ted says about two Masses (one on a mobile altar being towed by a tractor ), has some bishops to stay once, and eagerly tells Dougal all the salacious details a parishioner had just given him in confession in one episode. Only Sane Man : Zig-Zagged. The Only Sane Mantle is passed around like a ball. It is sometimes held by Ted, however, if the circumstances are sufficiently amusing, it will pass to Mrs.

Doyle, Dougal, Bishop Brennan, an Islander, a visitor to the island, and even Jack in a couple of episodes, unless it suits the comedy to have nobody display any kind of sanity at all. Only Shop in Town : The shop run by John and Mary seems to be the only one on Craggy Island. Out-of-Character Moment : "Sheep" reveals that on leap years Jack turns into a cheerful, free-spirit whenever it's Autumn. Ted laments that it doesn't last long. Overly Long Gag : Mrs Doyle trying to get Fr. Todd Unctious' name by sheer blunt-force guessing, suggesting random combinations of names and random words. And succeeding. Overly Narrow Superlative : It's amazing how simply changing a word of any ordinary bit of hyperbole to "priest" has this effect. "The most sarcastic man in Ireland" wouldn't cause you to bat an eyelid, but "the most sarcastic priest in Ireland"... Pac-Man Fever : Dougal and Damo are seen playing Street Fighter II (fairly current at the time), but with Atari style joysticks.

Parachute in a Tree : In one episode, during a flight emergency, Jack takes the plane's two parachutes and attaches the second one to the drinks trolley. As the credits roll, we see Jack and the trolley both stuck in the tree, with Jack vainly trying to reach it. Pardon My Klingon : "Feck" to non-Irish viewers. Feck is a mild curse in Ireland. Interestingly enough, the word has its own history completely unrelated to the err.. other F word, although it is commonly used as a milder version of it. Pass the Popcorn : In "Night of the Nearly Dead", hordes of middle-aged women have descended on the Parochial House to see crooner Eoin McLove, and have punched through the front door to grab him after he retreats back into the house. Ted, Dougal, and McLove's manager Patsy are trying to break the women's grip on McLove, while Jack... fetches a chair and a drink and sits back to watch. Patriotic Fervour : Jack's insistence on standing for the French national anthem is exploited when Ted needs to find a way to stop him crushing another priest by sitting on him.

Pet the Dog : Jack leaving his fortune to Ted and Dougal in his will... as long as they spend the night next to his body when he dies. Despite saying outright that he absolutely hates Ted and everything about him, Brennan still shows genuine concern when he thinks Ted's been hurt. Perma-Stubble : Jack in many of the later episodes. The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything : Though Ted is occasionally shown to say Mass (including once on a mobile altar being towed by a tractor), and once talks about a confession he took, Dougal and Jack are never seen doing any priestly things. Justified by Dougal's status as The Ditz and Jack as The Alcoholic - you wouldn't want them doing any work either. The implication is that all three of them have been Reassigned to Antarctica . Jack is, theoretically, a retired priest, and Ted and Dougal are, theoretically, his caretakers. In practice, Craggy Island is a place where particularly unpleasant priests are sent to rot with keepers selected from otherwise undesirables.

Leads to We Want Our Jerk Back when Jack gets too sick for Ted and Dougal to look after any more, and a much younger (and even less pleasant) priest is sent to Craggy Island for them to keep. Lampshaded when Dougal becomes a milkman and Ted is unable to think of any parish duty that would prevent him from doing so. Dougal: Ooh, I'd love to be a milkman for a bit. There's feck all to do around here... It's pretty clear, though, that all three priests know very little about Catholicism . Jack is permanently drunk, Dougal is the resident ditz and even Ted forgets that the church traditionally has condemned homosexuality, has papal infallibility and even says that God is the most forgiving "of all gods". Ted doesn't agree with many aspects of religion and even implies he's only a priest because it was traditional in his family for the least intelligent brother to become a priest. He also says 'the pope says things he doesn't really mean'. "Night of the Nearly Dead" reveals that despite being a Catholic Priest, Ted doesn't even know the birth name of the Pope.

Despite all this, Ted actually seems to be the only priest on the show with any sort of faith. Pocket Protector : In "Old Grey Whistle Theft", we hear that the eponymous whistle saved the life of a previous owner. He was being executed by the British, and all the bullets hit the whistle, and bounced off. Subverted in that the British simply reloaded and shot him again. The Pratfall : Mrs. Doyle wins a date for tea with her idol, TV heartthrob Eoin McLove. When she meets him, she begins shaking uncontrollably, then goes rigid as a board and falls right over on her arse. The show largely substitutes the dialectal (and much softer ) 'Feck' in place of the F-Bomb, but one memorable instant occurs in "Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep", uttered by show creator Graham Linehan. "Just play the fucking note!" "KICK THE FUCKING BALL!" Properly Paranoid : Ted tears the place apart like a madman searching for a bug placed by the Rugged Island priests... who are indeed spying on him in their ice cream van outside. He also instructs Dougal to guard the corner flags against theft.

It's obviously just to keep him out of the way, but Dougal takes it seriously- and turns out to be right in doing so when Burne sends Cyril to steal one as a souvenir. The Psycho Rangers : The Rugged Island priests. Dick is basically a more evil version of Ted and his two companions are almost exactly like Dougal and Jack. Really Dead Montage : Not for Ted but for Dermot Morgan himself. Reassigned to Antarctica : Seems to be the point of the Craggy Isle parish - Ted for misappropriating funds, Dougal for the " Blackrock Incident ", Jack for a sexual dalliance with a nun (and the "Wedding in Athlone"). In between Seasons 2 & 3, Ted somehow gets back into good graces with the Church, being based in Dublin and going to Paris for Church functions. As soon as an accountant queries his expenses , however... Reckless Gun Usage : John in one scene, after the island is gripped by hysteria after a whistle is stolen, mentions that he keeps his shotgun cocked and armed so he can get the drop on him.

He then demonstrates poor trigger discipline, waves it around like a Majorette's baton, and points it at Ted, whilst slamming it down on the counter at the same time. We hear it go off when Ted leaves the shop, thanks to Mary attempting to wrestle in from John's grasp. Red Oni, Blue Oni : Zigzagged—at first Ted appears to be the more sensible, level-headed one, until you realize that he cares more about material possessions and wealth than spirituality and is perfect willing to throw away any scruples he might otherwise have in order to pursue some shallow goal(which is sometimes money but may also be beating Dick Byrne in some childish challenge), whereas Dougal for all his ditziness at least makes more of an effort to be a good priest or at least a good person; moreover, he is also calmer and less excitable than Ted. Refuge in Audacity : Dougal figures that Ted Kicking Bishop Brennan Up The Arse is so ridiculous, Brennan himself wouldn't believe it.

Sure enough, Bishop Brennan gets kicked up the arse and it only occurs to him that this is what happened when he's having an audience with the Pope, upon which he runs full pelt back to Ireland, where Ted is able to convince him that Ted kicking the Bishop up the arse is too ridiculous to have actually happened, which the bishop believes.... until he sees a giant photograph of the act. Father Todd Unctious, and how he infiltrates the trio's house comes down to this. Repeated Cue, Tardy Response : Ted needs to hold a raffle for a prize that isn't his to give away, so he rigs the draw by giving Dougal the winning ticket. Dougal remains oblivious after the number is called several times, responding only when Ted addresses him directly. Reset Button : Unusually played at the beginning of an episode rather than at the end. The episode 'A Christmassy Ted' referred to all charges against Ted over the 'Lourdes thing' dropped (the original offence which got him sent to Craggy Island). The first episode of the next series showed him at his luxurious new parish...before an auditor discovers irregularities in the parish accounts sending him right back to Craggy Island.

Rule of Funny : As per Graham Linehan's over-the-top Signature Style . He's stated in interview that when everyone knows how farce comedy works and everything is running on the Rule of Funny anyway, attempting to make the scenarios at all "realistic" is just patronising and detracts from the potential humour. Hence things like the perfectly square bit of dirt, which he could have come up with a credulity-stretching Hand Wave for, but why bother? Without one, the setup for the joke is a surreal sight gag in itself. Running Gag : Too many to list, but here are a few examples: Ted calling Father Larry Duff on his mobile just when he's doing something important and messing him up because of it. On one occasion he fell of a cliff while trying to find his phone. Another time he lost a ten thousand pound contest which required intense concentration. Mrs Doyle's constant tea offering is one of the most famous running gags. Her dedication to tea making is frankly disturbing. She asks over and over and over. Once, she asked via a very large series of written signs when the music was up too loud to talk.

Another time when Ted came downstairs in the middle of the night, she was standing perfectly still next to the door holding a tray of tea, six inches from Ted's face when he turned the light on. She also offered tea to a man who had just explained he was deathly allergic to it, although he left before she could really press him. People on Craggy Island sure do jump out of windows a lot... John and Mary, the 'loving couple' that keep trying to kill each other. Mrs Doyle falling off the window bench whenever she stands on it to clean something or hang something up. It's resolved in the final episode, when she creates a pulley system that lets her glide off the bench. Ted would like you to know that that money was just "resting in his account". Sarcasm-Blind : Mrs Doyle and Dougal both struggle with the concept. They say it's as big as four cats! And it's got a retractable leg so it can leap up at you better! And it lights up at night, and it's got four ears - two of them are for listening and the other two are just kind of backup ears.

And its claws are as big as cups, and for some reason it's got a tremendous fear of stamps! And Mrs Doyle was telling me it's got magnets on its tail, so if you're made out of metal it can attach it to you! And instead of a mouth it's got four arses! Incidentally, four-arsed creations became a recurring theme on South Park some years later. Separated by a Common Language : In "Cigarettes And Alcohol And Rollerblading", the phrase that forms (in Ted's mind at least) from John's cigarette smoke takes on a whole new meaning if you're American. Senior Sleep Cycle : Father Jack seemingly spends his entire life sleeping when he isn't drinking or yelling obscenities. Serious Business : "There's nothing at all stupid about the All-Priests Over-75's Five-a-Side Football Championship Match! Against Rugged Island." (Or the All Priests Stars in Their Eyes Lookalike Competition, for that matter.) The theft of a whistle prompting Craggy Island's one policeman to start doing helicopter sweeps and the Islanders to start locking themselves in the basement in case they're brutally murdered. According to Ted, only Priests' Socks are actually black.

All other "black" socks are just really, really, really, really, really, REALLY dark blue. Shout-Out : In "A Song for Europe", Ted's Atomic F-Bomb speech when they can't write the song ("Just play the f***ing note") is a shout out to a legendary 1970 rehearsal tape of The Troggs having a studio bust-up. The mad woman shouting "Feckin' Greeks!" looks (and flails) just like Maria von Trapp singing "I Have Confidence". Speed 3. In Series 3, the farmer who hires two idiots to frighten his sheep, so that he can stage its recovery and win the competition - and therefore a lot of money - with it, is called Fargo . Doubles as Foreshadowing for The Reveal . The two idiots are themselves a shout out to money-obsessed schemer Brian Quigley's two dozy incompetent henchmen in Ballykissangel (another more mainstream Irish comedy-drama). What's more, the two idiots are named Hud and Giant . "Plague": Tom's going to take care of rabbits and thinks about using hammer, baseball bat, chainsaw and katana in that very order .

One particular Shout-Out was lampshaded in the script itself: Ted: I am fearless. Like that film with Jeff Bridges . Dougal: I haven't seen that one. Ted: Not a lot of people have Dougal, so it's probably a bad reference. Shur Fine Guns : Averted by John's shotgun . He slams it down on the counter, causing Ted to jump, but it doesn't go off. John finds this hilarious. Similar Squad : The Rugged Island priests. They live in the same type of house as Ted, Dougal and Jack and have almost the exact same personalities, except that Dick Byrne is even more of a Jerkass than Ted is. Sitcom Arch-Nemesis : Dick Byrne, along with the rest of Rugged Island's Psycho Rangers . Small Reference Pools : In "Night of the Nearly-Dead", Ted's specialist subject on Eoin's television quiz was William Shatner's Tek Wars. Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure : Only to fail on the general knowledge question; Eoin: What is Pope John Paul II's birth name? Ted: (Weakly) ... Jim?

Snipe Hunt : In the All-Priests Over-75s football match, Ted gives Dougal the task of guarding the corner flags against theft. This becomes relevant when Dick Byrne sends the equally-inept Cyril to steal one as a souvenir. Springtime for Hitler : "My Lovely Horse" gets chosen as the Irish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest so that Ireland will lose and will not have to incur the cost of hosting the Contest another year. Averted, in that the plan succeeds spectacularly. Spot of Tea : While tea drinking is generally associated with the English, the Republic of Ireland are just about equally notorious. Ireland's obession with tea is represented by Mrs. Doyle. "Tea, father?" "Oh, you will, you will, you will." Mrs Doyle: Father, shall I make our fluffy guest a cup of tea? Throw the Dog a Bone : "Competition Time" is the one episode where Ted and Co. are better off than when it began. Similarly, one of Larry Duff's appearances leads to a completely different priest being horrifically injured/killed rather than him. Training from Hell : Parodied when the priests give up cigarettes, alcohol and rollerblading for Lent.

The nun sent to then wakes them early, bathes them in ice, drags them from a tractor, shoots at them with a revolver and makes them sleep on bricks. Trope Codifier : Father Ted builds on earlier more mainstream TV sitcoms about priests, religion, and religious hierarchy, taking the themes and settings of earlier shows like Bless Me Father and Oh Brother! and taking them Up to Eleven and beyond. Without Derek Nimmo's relatively innocuous portrayal of a Church of England vicar in an otherwise anodyne sixties sitcom, there might have been no "Father Ted". Mushroom Samba : Jack tends to hallucinate whenever he drinks Toilet Duck. He sees Ted as incredibly creepy when holding up three fingers. T-Word Euphemism : In one episode, Mrs Doyle has been reading the works of a lady novelist staying at the parochial house and is shocked by the language. She refers to "the F-word", but this being Father Ted has to clarify "The bad F-word. Not feck. Worse than feck." The Unfettered : Father Jack is completely unafraid to say what little he has on his mind. Totally Radical : Intentionally so.

While working on "My Lovely Horse", Dougal makes a stilted attempt at rapping, prompting Ted to tell him to forget about his " Icy Tea " and " Scoopy Scoopy Dog Dog ". Unreveal : Mrs Doyle's first name is never mentioned, except for two occasions in "The Mainland", when an alarm bell and a dropped tray prevent the viewer from hearing it. The scripts book reveals that her name is Joan, but that the writers decided never to mention it in the series in order to add an element of mystery to it. Also, Mrs. Doyle very nearly talks about her husband in one episode, before abruptly cutting herself off. Mrs. Doyle: This reminds me of the time me and my husband... I've said too much. Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist : Father Ted, while he isn't the worst, is still an egotistical crooked jerk. Perhaps best exemplified with his highly vitriolic award speech in "A Christmassy Ted". Unusual Euphemism : "Feck". (Not invented by the series, commonly used in Ireland) In one episode Ted goes to a park in which one is forbidden from swearing.

He's called a "fupping backstard" and a "pedrophile", among other things. Unwitting Pawn : Ted and Dougal become this for Irish Eurosong selectors in "A Song For Europe". Vow of Celibacy : Bishop Brennan apparently has a mistress and a son, as shown in a holiday video tape found in his bag. The main characters use this tape as blackmail when Brennan threatens to reassign them somewhere even worse . Waving Signs Around : "Careful now!" "Down with this sort of thing!" We Want Our Jerk Back : At first Ted and Dougal are thrilled when Jack gets a contagious disease and has to be sent away. Then it turns out his replacement takes Jack's Jerkass qualities Up to Eleven until they're driven to kidnap him back. Whole Plot Reference : "Speed 3", more or less. Wrong Genre Savvy : Ted and his fellow priests just can't work out where they've heard the plot of the episode "Speed 3" before.

X Must Not Win : In the episode "Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading", after being goaded into giving up something for Lent by Father Dick Byrne, Ted gives Dougal a lecture on the importance of Lent, something far more important than the sacrifices made by Jesus as the latter points out, but beating Dick Byrne at his bet. Your Approval Fills Me with Shame : In one episode, Ted is seen doing a racist "Chinaman" impression through the window of the church by a group of Chinese passers-by. He runs after them to apologize, only to be stopped by a couple of locals who applaud him for "standing up" to them and ask how they, too, can become full-time racists. Ted is horrified. Zombie Apocalypse : Spoofed in the main plot of "Night of the Nearly Dead", in which hordes of elderly women descend upon the parochial house to get a glimpse of singer Eoin McLove. :: Indexes ::

Question: Who played Father Noel Furlong in the British tv series ‘Father Ted’?
Answer: Graham Norton